From TechCrunch:

As if AT&T wasn’t already bad enough. In an act that is sure to spark internet rebellions everywhere, AT&T has apparently declared war on the extremely popular imageboard 4chan.org, blocking some of the site’s most popular message boards, including /r9k/ and the infamous /b/. moot, who started 4chan and continues to run the site, has posted a note to the 4chan status blog indicating that AT&T is in fact filtering/blocking the site for many of its customers (we’re still trying to confirm from AT&T’s side).

Why AT&T? WHY?!

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When I got married and moved out of my parents’ house last January I lost a very dear thing to me — unlimited broadband Internet access.

Oh the humanity!

Before that I spent my bandwidth as if it were water — downloading videos I had no intention of watching immediately, running a personal text-based role-playing server, clicking through link after link on Wikipedia, soaking up my brains with trivial knowledge that had little or nothing to do with my current tasks at hand. (Mame chishiki!) I even ran a Shoutcast stream off my PC, playing space ambient, game remixes, and radio programs for the few friends who knew of its existence. (This is Radio Morningstar.) (more…)